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| 1894 |
| | | Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book surrounds the child Mowgli with a collection of vivid animal guardians | |
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| 1894 |
| | | Wealthy US astronomer Percival Lowell builds an observatory at Mars Hill in Flagstaff, Arizona | |
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| 1894 |
| | | US Socialist Eugene Debs comes to prominence as leader of a strike by railway workers against the Pullman Company | |
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| 1894 |
| | | London's Tower Bridge raises its roadway for the first time to let a ship pass up the Thames | |
|  | Tower Bridge, by C.F. Kell, c.1894
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| 1894 |
| | | The Basque Nationalist Party is founded, beginning more than a century of separatist unrest in northwest Spain | |
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| 1894 |
| | | Scottish physicist William Ramsay isolates argon, following Rayleigh's discovery that an undiscovered gas combines with nitrogen in the air | |
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| 1894 |
| | | Japan and China go to war over Korea, with disastrous results for China | |
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| 1894 |
| | | William Randolph Hearst buys the New York Journal, the first of numerous purchases in building up his press empire | |
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| 1894 |
| | | Brazil's first civilian president, Prudente de Morais, is peacefully elected, setting the pattern for the next four decades | |
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| 1894 |
| | | Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, is convicted of treason and sent to Devil's Island in French Guiana | |
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